Tuesday, 22 January 2013

Gates Foundation study: We’ve figured out what makes a good teacher

Even as most of the nation’s 15,000 public school districts roll out
new systems to evaluate teachers, many are still struggling with a
central question: What’s the best way to identify an effective educator?

After a three-year, $45 million research project, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation believes it has some answers.

The most reliable way to evaluate teachers is to use a three-pronged
approach built on student test scores, classroom observations by
multiple reviewers and teacher evaluations from students themselves, the
foundation found...